Saratoga and Lake Champlain in history . ewhere she could operate only from the coast,here she might hope to cut the rebellious provincesin two, capture their main inland thoroughfare, theHudson, cut off New England and leave her exposedto be reduced from the rear. In the winter of 1776 General Burgoyne was seenwalking in Hyde Park with the king of was a fashionable gentleman who had inearly life made a runaway match with the daughterof a noble family and received rich promotions inconsequence; he was also a dashing soldier and hada ready though florid pen with which he afterw
Saratoga and Lake Champlain in history . ewhere she could operate only from the coast,here she might hope to cut the rebellious provincesin two, capture their main inland thoroughfare, theHudson, cut off New England and leave her exposedto be reduced from the rear. In the winter of 1776 General Burgoyne was seenwalking in Hyde Park with the king of was a fashionable gentleman who had inearly life made a runaway match with the daughterof a noble family and received rich promotions inconsequence; he was also a dashing soldier and hada ready though florid pen with which he afterwardwrote some successful plays. He had served underSir Guy Carleton the preceding year in Canada andhaving seen the Americans flee at the approach ofthe English troops thought but little of their cour-age and is said to have boasted that he could marchthrough all of the American colonies with fivethousand men. It was agreed in England betweenthe king and the minister, Germaine, that Burgoyneshould have the chief command of an army which. was to descend the Champlain valley and that of theupper Hudson to Saratoga where it was to be joinedby an invading force under a partisan leader, , after which it was to move upon Albanywhile General Howe sailed up the Hudson fromNew York to a junction with Burgoyne which wasto insure the destruction of American independence. BURGOYNES ARMY. Burgoynes well-appointed army amounted to be-tween eight and ten thousand men and was com-posed of English and German regular troops, Can-adian militia, Indians, and the beginnings of someroyal American regiments to be filled up in northernNew York by loyalist colonists who it was thoughtwould leave off their timorous ways and join theEnglish standard when put in heart by the appear-ance of a conquering army. Burgoyne was pro-vided with an extensive park of artillery, for Ameri-cans had already shown great skill in throwing upbreastworks with the utmost rapidity and it hadbeen found that they were
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